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The wild east : a biography of the Great Smoky Mountains / Margaret Lynn Brown.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: New perspectives on the history of the SouthPublication details: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, �2000.Description: 1 online resource (xxi, 457 pages) : illustrations, mapContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0813022266
  • 9780813022260
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Wild east.DDC classification:
  • 976.8/89 21
LOC classification:
  • F443.G7 W55 2000eb
Online resources:
Contents:
1. Forest economies -- 2. A lumberman's dream -- 3. Scenery in the eminent domain -- 4. Landscaping a park out of the wilderness -- 5. A lake in the national defense -- 6. Drive-in wilderness -- 7. Bearly managing tourons -- 8. Still not a wilderness -- 9. In search of the wild east -- 10. Global threats, local conspiracy theories.
Summary: "The Wild East explores the social, political, and environmental changes in the Great Smoky Mountains during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Although this national park is most often portrayed as a triumph of wilderness preservation, Margaret L. Brown concludes that the largest forested region in the eastern United States is actually a re-created wilderness, a product of restoration and even manipulation of the land." "In the 1970s, Brown writes, the Smokies faced many of the consequences of these management decisions. Major crises with brook trout, black bears, and exotic species pushed park officials toward a greater regard for ecology. At the same time, scientists trained during the environmental movement foraged through the land's history seeking to re-create the look of the landscape before human settlement. Park management continues to waffle between these shifting views of wilderness, negotiating the often contradictory mission of promoting tourism and ensuring preservation."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-438) and index.

Print version record.

"The Wild East explores the social, political, and environmental changes in the Great Smoky Mountains during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Although this national park is most often portrayed as a triumph of wilderness preservation, Margaret L. Brown concludes that the largest forested region in the eastern United States is actually a re-created wilderness, a product of restoration and even manipulation of the land." "In the 1970s, Brown writes, the Smokies faced many of the consequences of these management decisions. Major crises with brook trout, black bears, and exotic species pushed park officials toward a greater regard for ecology. At the same time, scientists trained during the environmental movement foraged through the land's history seeking to re-create the look of the landscape before human settlement. Park management continues to waffle between these shifting views of wilderness, negotiating the often contradictory mission of promoting tourism and ensuring preservation."--Jacket.

1. Forest economies -- 2. A lumberman's dream -- 3. Scenery in the eminent domain -- 4. Landscaping a park out of the wilderness -- 5. A lake in the national defense -- 6. Drive-in wilderness -- 7. Bearly managing tourons -- 8. Still not a wilderness -- 9. In search of the wild east -- 10. Global threats, local conspiracy theories.

English.

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